Shortly after the blast, a second explosive device was found a few blocks away, placing much of NY on edge. Shortly after the blast, investigators found a suspicious device a few blocks away, placing much of the city on edge.
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The mayor also said there is no specific connection to a pipe bomb explosion in the New Jersey shore town of Seaside Park earlier Saturday at a charity run. All the injured had been released from the hospital by Sunday afternoon. “Just before I got off the plane a bomb went off in NY, and nobody knows exactly what’s going on, but boy, we are living in a time”, Trump said.
What we know: No one has claimed responsibility for the blast. “We did have a bomb detonated on 23rd street and we have no one apprehended so of course I’m concerned”.
With world leaders due to arrive in the city ahead of the U.N. General assembly, some 1,000 additional state police and National Guard officers were being sent to the city to patrol transportation hubs as a precaution, officials said.
New Jersey Transit service was suspended early on Monday between Newark Liberty Airport and Elizabeth, and New Jersey-bound Amtrak trains were being held at New York Penn Station, officials said.
Police had said the blast in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan appeared to come from inside a large trash bin, and law enforcement sources said they have video of a man dropping something into or next to a dumpster.
The blast sent bystanders running from the scene and shattered windows in nearby businesses, putting a city on high alert just a week after marking the 15th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in Manhattan.
Langmesser said no one has been charged with any crime and the investigation is continuing.
Twenty-nine people were injured in the Saturday night blast. The rose window of the St Vincent de Paul Church is seen shattered, boarding along a sidewalk has been blasted away, and debris is seen on the street.
President Obama was briefed on the explosion, according to the White House.
Earlier, New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio told a news conference: “There is no specific and credible threat against New York City at this point in time from any terror organisation”.
“New Yorkers are not intimidated by anything, it’s something we’re very proud of”, the mayor said, relating some details about his tour of Chelsea this morning. None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, the New York City Fire Department said. “We really are very lucky that there were no fatalities”, Cuomo said. They want to make you worry about going into New York City. “We’re not going to let them instill fear because then they would win”, he added. “Whoever placed these bombs, we will find them and they will be brought to justice”.
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force was on the scene.
Members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) carry on the investigations in the scene of an explosion on West 23rd Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood in NY, early Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016.
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As ABC News previously reported, multiple law enforcement officials tell ABC News that investigators are exploring the possibility the two explosions in NY and New Jersey are linked to the same bomber or bombers by what appear to be similar types of cell phones. The secondary possible device is still with the NYPD bomb squad in the Bronx, where no determination has been made as to whether the pressure cooker is an actual explosive device.
